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' 0. 8v M. ALEXANDER. A BBD LOUNGE. No. 325,897. Patented Sept. 8, 1885.

WITJVESSES A .attorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR ALEXANDER AND MAX ALEXANDER, lOE NEW YORK, N. Y.

BED-LOUNGE.l

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,897. dated September 8, 1885.

` Application filed July 14, 1584. (No model.)

` the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to certain improvements in bed-1ounges, and is designed objectively to produce a piece of furniture thatshall serve the purpose of a lounge or sofa, and

. when opened a bed, the necessary mattresses and springs being within the body.

The improvement consists, essentially, in the economical arrangement for the disposition of the legs when the device is used as a lounge and in the manner of supporting the head.

In describing the device reference will be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l represents a perspective of the device as a lounge; Fig. 2, a detail of one of the legs, and Fig. 3 a perspective of the device as a bed.

A designates the body of the device, having formed on it aback, B. These parts may be ornamented as is desired, and the back cushioned.

l Normally resting on the body is a cushioned top, C, hinged thereto so as to open, as shown in Fig. 3, the surfaces D being then coincident or level, and are mattressed over springs or arranged in any other suitable manner to provide for the comfort ofthe occupant.

The hinged piece C is provided at the head with a leg, E, and at the foot with a leg, F. The legE is formed of angular stuft` and is bent so as to conform to and rest in the space formed by the conjunction of the back and the head-piece. Thus the leg is solidly and strongly Xed to the hinged piece and is folded completely out of the way when it is desired to use the device as a lounge; also,preventing dirt from entering the space, always occurring at the junction of the head piece and the back.

One side of the angular leg is continued above the surface of the piece G, as shown at G, and on it engages a catch, H, on the hinged head-piece I. Thus the strain is communicated directly to theleg, and that part of the device is best adapted to receive it.

The rear leg is also strongly and rigidly x'ed to the piece C, and is provided with an indent or concave portion, K, which, when the device is closedj Iitsover the bulge of the cushion on the back, the free end of the leg closely hugging the said back above the cushion.

Thus it is evident that While the weakness and also the machinery attending folding legs is obviated the rigid legs are no more in the way, while the front leg has the additional desirable features of directly supporting the head and also preventing the entrance of dirt in the space in which it rests when the device is closed. n

Since stops or catches on the extensible portions of boththe body and head, by means ol" which the head is supported, are not new, they are, in the broad sense, here disclaimed.

Having described the device, what I claim 1sl. In a bed-lounge,a hinged extending piece provided with an angular curved leg on which is formed an extension or flange, in combination with a head having on `it a catch engaging with the extension on the leg.

2. A bed-lounge having a hinged extension provided at the foot with a leg having an indent or concave recess, and at the head an angular curved leg with an extension atits base, and a head having a catch which engages with the extension on the leg, the hinged extension folding on the body of the device to form the lounge and out from it to form the bed.

In testimony whereof we aEfix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

VoscAR ALEXANDER.

MAX ALEXANDER.

Wit n esses:

ZYGMUNT 'HAUBENsToIn MORITZ Osr. 

